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CRO*D UNIVERSIT Member of J Distribut Founded January 80, 1908, with Robert I Gonzales as the first editor, 'The Gameoi published by and for the students of the Univ The opinions expressed by columnists and I writers are not necessarily those of "The 4 JTOE MOLONY, EDITOR RUDY RIVERS, MANAGING EDITOR JACK WALTHER, BUSINESS MANAGA News Editor ................ Jack Mo Campus Editor .......... W. H. McCe Sports Editor .......... Lloyd Huntir Jack Morgan, Er BU Jim H< REPC Carolyn Busbee, May Herbert, Frances C Rita Webb, Ann Chandler, Jackie Southe Tommy Herbert, Marnie Manning, Lawson I Bobby Smith, Ruth Barker, Mary Bloodworth, Dear Ge The University of South Carolina is. markable institution. This is a profouni sumption. It is at once, an orderly comi ity and a chaotic state. It breathes the of youth and has the pulse of faltering In the past four years The Gamecoclk measured these opposites. Repeatedly paper has sought to arouse its readers, the state, to the appalling poverty of state university. The state is directly responsible for poverty. The several state supported i tutions are indirectly responsible. Therefore alumni, faculty, and stud together with all their kinfolk, share th sponsibility for the stupid situation in w the state university finds itself; rotting impoverished. This responsibility is cancerous. It is branded on men visibly; but it grows grows and kills. This cancer cannot be c immediately, nor through repeated starts. It is to be done or the Unive Loud The Gamecock begins a new semester this issue. Just like everyone.else wh< gins a new semester, The Gamecock wi cautious and gentle for a time. Then a will ring somewhere and the stampede begin. A new staff has left its mark on this i; the last of the fall semester. Look it but expect no startling changes. There be new names in old places, and diffe styles of make-up perhaps, but this is first faltering step of the new staff. ' will kick out of the old boots when they their mettle and their confidence. LOU CASS Scienco This is 1950. The war is over, question ol Our armies, through courage, a very pert science, and alliance with other tion depen< nations, enabled us to destroy our mind, and enemies on a scale never seen be- If any on fore. On military standards, we neglected won decisively. But, in the deep- results wil est sense of the word, have we many, neg] really won? Have we won the their down. peace? Is this war we have just by science, finished actually a continuation of tures of t World War I and a set-up for science, ui World War III? brings bef Our objects and hopes of this the atomic most recent of wars have not been Our We satisfied. Our victory has not represents brought peace to the world. The qualities. I Atlantic Charter is raon-existent, be change nor are the Four Freedoms thriv- stroyed th ing. And, worst of.all, Stalin now us. To sux has what we fought to keep Hitler balance. T from obtaining. In other words, prove it. ] we have defeated Nazi Germany cess of pr< only to find we now have the ting the b grpater menace of Soviet Russia, phasis of whose record shows oppression body and s: never equalled, crowned "I What can be done to correct this turned him situation? The solution of this lowing a I 4cocit FG FOR A GREATER Ir OF SOUTH CAROLINA isociated Collegiate Press Dr of Collegiate Digest '-liott of South Carolina weekly, on Fridays, during k is college year excepk holiklays and examinationt ersity otter- cock." Publishing does not constitute an end4 Name- ment although the right to edit is reserved. Society Editor ................ Jane D Feature Editor ............... Paul Fo IR Copy Editor .............. Ruthe Klec rgan Exchange Editor ........ Betsy Know Lrtha Circulation Manager ..... Russel McGo, gton Asst. Business Manager ......... Paul F ]OLUMNIST8 Ic Oppenheimer, Rudy Rivers. 9INESS STAFF >rton, Bennie Helms iRTORIAL STAFF ollier, Edwards, Martha Matthews, Barbara McSv rland, Kenneth Powell, Tom Price, Dick Dunlap, Jh rates, Howle, Bill Kaufman, Al Gibert, Lily Groover, Olga Marshall, Barbara Derrick, Elizabeth Traylor. neral Assembly a re- dies. There are no dramatics here. I as- The General Assembly could perform nun- historic service to the state. It could < fire solidate higher education in South Caro' life. under one responsible agency. This sei has desirable if sufficient funds cannot be this propriated to the various schools for t] and needs. the The General Assembly is omnipotent. '] is generally known throughout the state, this does a bang-up legal job on whatever it d< nsti- but it does very little that warms the hei of the people. Bnts, It has become apparent in the past f . re- years that The Gamecock has perfori hich little real service to the end of making and University a more progressive institut The Gamecock seems to be the only publ not tion in the state to view the condition and higher education with alarm. Why? W1 ured there is smoke, fire surely is. If there i ralse smoke then spontaneous combustion may rsity in themaking. And Noisy a Lfter The jig-tune of The Gamecock has b ibe- loud and noisy over the years. The da Il be has been rather appalling to the staid, beltied element of the campus community. I bel not beyond reason to believe that the t will and dance have been thought-provoking. '] is pleasant to assume, especially in the li ssue, of the criticism that the administratior >ver, mentally defunct. will We are told that the student body is rent hind us, that it is a trust we hold for ti the to continue The Gamecock existence in ti ['hey interest. We have no reason to question find assumption. It has not been disproven irt years.-R. R. 3 And God eternal peace remains ed ehsr~hdit h inent question. Civiliza- tr n ae rmtehn Is on a balance of body,higragetgancldn spirit in all its people.coeiswchhulbet e of these elements isHeilerngttavlwh or overemphasized, thespe,bidigrmahn, be disastrous. In Ger-inetmrporflepo ect of the spiritual led Ec tpi cec ead ~all. Religion, uncheckedsceetomiani,ad brought about the tor- i oeiprat oke hie Middle Ages. Now, o u oeta nme.I nchecked by religion,prcsofalti,heei ore us the problem ofthuhletfrmnisl. bomb. Teeaesvrlknso stern civilization todaygeiosaddvcasth' a balance of these threecorcthsemigydat et one of these elements sinii rn htw r I and we will be de-inMysgetosaddvc asame as those beforenoenieyrgna.Ihv vive, we must keep this rwdfo h id f0 s progress, we must im-wh tinarwohyfbr lut recently in the pro- Igfo,adaddm ml gross, science is upset-soIfmntdyltoci alance by an overem- wt i oencvlzto,h mind and a neglect of hv ogiehssinii >Irit. Scientific man has cvre ytetuh.o i nowledge" his king and I te od,orslai back on God. He Is fol- dpnetuo epta a road ~ ~ ~ oere which knowuld betwe cec n God Drip-Tick, which is. mot iin i say to me: the or the clock wit drib-drops and t all -about the sa first the rain is and damp and a the ful waste of wa not to mention t on a tin-roof thE rae- leaky in spots v have aimed theii guns and freckle it with dents an ster eyen though i h< dey ..them and threal Iton their pants , witl ivan eld second, the clock i just heard it I BARBARA McSWA Carolina, Th Something is missing at Caro rain, lina. Something vital that meani nmy the differeice between a collegi Fune and an alma mater. Alma matei means mother of the soul. Carolina has a tradition oi friendliness. When I came to col. lege as a scared freshman it wai more than a tradition - il was i working part of the schooT and i1 warmed me to my very toes. Now I am a' junior and I an an wondering what has happened t< it. There is a different atmospher4 .o all around. lina aI can remember walking acrosi ems the campus my first year here. ap- knew very few people, but it wa: ieir an unusual day when everybod passing by did not speak. Th4 'his thing was so contagious that. - often found myself unconsciousl3 speaking to strangers on Mair )es; street. irts But it is hard to hit on the cor4 of the difference. It's not just i our matter of people speaking or noi ned speaking - there are many ac the ceptable reasons why a persoi .*. might not speak every time h4 ion. meets an acquaintance; there is n< ica- excuse for not wanting to take th4 of trouble to be friendly. And that', kere where the difference between th4 Carolinu of today and the Caro be JACK MORGAN Anothl Not only are the state-owned c in dire need of consolidation and tional set-up as a whole-from to een with a fine tooth comb to remov ,nce give it the sparkle of a modern t set- Today, more than ever, a colle~ t 1s Today, even in South Carolina, t.1 une greater the opportunity and succ 'his We of The Gamecock have be ght higher education because wve thi is more rapidly and, once establish should start from the bottom an be- tention of many educators. Yet to do the work in lower education lemn the young, little can be accomplit ieir beginning. this Increa 41Some optimistic members of th< have recommended an ap.propriati ing teachers' pay in the state. -- one, but it's our belief that such would be lucky to pass the hous J>ill were passed, then the legisli and I have a feeling that would especially since there seems to b sales-tax, the one thing that wo The fact remains, the teachers living expenses. And unless the teachers remain will enter new We're assuming there is a disti: u-of the salary received and the q s .of in any profession. The good ones die- are too many teachers in the put elrs' where, and there are too many nore in method rather than in subject and oeTeacher vhat Dr. Benjamin Fine, education dead cently conducted a nation-wide si the found that, with the exception o. ino fpces a critical shortage of adeq mentary schools. 'He found thati sug- emergency or sub-standard certi & to gency teacher for every ten emplo rous in 400 before World War -II. now Doctor Fine found there are tea, are themselves, and that of 942,630 bor- year of college training or less. hers The present school population row- 750,000 a year for the next ten say- crowded facilities--all puts a stra inue Doctor Fine estimates that to will.the needed supply,of adequately dis- mum of 5 billion dollars. God. Without a sales-tax, only one n is most people, especially in the So1 ance There are the facts to see. TI finrd the solution. Will it be a s Drop-Tock iportant, rain h their discordant ipk-tocks; me. wet shame ter, he noise t is there boys -BB d - d holes ackled ened 'to pepper k salt. : is useless; alt. -R. R. IN en And -.Now lina of two years ago lies. Maybe it's the fault of the 1947 freshman class. Maybe 'we have taken the Carolina atmosphere so much for granted that we have forgotten to pass it 'on to the classes which f6llowed us. Or it could be that these classes have not had the inclination to adopt the tradition. Or maybe the atmosphere of the school, itself, hasn't changed at all; maybe it's something inside me that's changed. At^ any rate something's differ ent, something's missing in my part of Carolina, and I wish it could be replaced or restored. I That intangible something called school spirit has to be born of it self, I guess. No one person or [ thing can create it or give it birth. ' But I do believe that if we had a whole school of people who honestly and sincerely felt that they were the luckiest people in the world to be going to Carolina, that Carolina was the most won derful school of all, and that the people going jo Cnrclina couldn't be beat, we'd have a revival of the old atmosphere. And the good part of this is that it works both ways. If we can get the atmosphere again, the feeling will have to be there. 9 r Crisis olleges and universities in the state change, but the entire state educa p to bottom-needs to be gone over e the loose strands of old age and ge. e is more than a place for the rich. e more education a person has, the ess in life. en advocating the consolidation of sk that if changes can take place 3d, (10 the most good. Perhaps wve I work up; that would be the con unless we have the trained leaders and the qualified teachers to instruct shed. We wvould be defeated 'at the sed Pay House Ways and Means committee on -of some $10,000,000 for increas The committee's deed was a noble an increase, in the form of a bill, 3, much less the Senate. If such a ture would have to find the funds Lake the boys a great deal of time, 3 very little enthusiasm for a state uld probably save us. need more money to combat high y get it soon, what fewv qualified ields. nect relationship between the amount uality of the teaching. That's true leave, the poor remain behind. There lie school systems who belong else teachers whose training has been matter.. Shortage 3ditor of the New York Times, re ;irvey of ediucational conditions. Ho Arizona, every state in the union uately trained teachers for its ele ublic schools still employ 86,000' on ticates. This represents one emer yed, comparedl with one such teacher :hers who hadn't finished high school teachers employed, 70,000 had one (25,000,000, the expected increase, ,ears), Inflated building costs, over sin on education. provide the necessary buildings and trained teachers will require a mini choice remains: federal aIdl. And ith, fear federal control. ho citizens of South Carolina must sles-tax or federal aid ?. It's No Bolony By JOE MOLONY A Plan To Expand Where do we go from here? Ask tilat question of any stu dent or faculty member and check their response. Invari ably, you'll get the same- puzzled expr:ssion. They really don't know, nor do they apparently care. What brings on this lackadaisical attitude? Is it the atmos phere here? Whatever it is, it's not healthful. Few colleges with dissatisfied teachers and students have been known to progress. Because of this atmosphere, several have folded up. There must be some degree of harmony between these groups; but how can this be achieved? Well, we think it can be done on our ten-point plan: 1. Pay the teachers decent salaries according to ability not favor. 2. Make fewer false promises to the students. Live up to those which are made. 3. Keep the student body informed on all administrative operations and outline the duties of administrative officials. 4. Appropriate what we need from the legislature, not what we wish we had. - 5. Utilize the $1,450,000 old building fund for improve ments on buildings and for the erection of new ones. 6. Build up the programs that need building up and let the weaker ones go, i. e.: The various schools of engineering should not be exploited at the expense of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate schools. 7. Publish a complete list of scholarships and fellowships offered at the University. 8. Publish a complete, itemized financial statement to in clude the operations of the athletic department, the book store and- the canteen. 9. Charge rent equivalent to expenses incurred in keeping the dormitories in good repair and according to the present physical condition of the houses. 10. Consolidate the programs of higher education in the six state-supported schools in South Carolina. The above plan may seem to be an idealogical one right now, but it is fundamental in intent and realistic in its ulti mate operation. It's being carried out in practically every state in the country e*cept South Carolin.9. If it were put into effect here there would be no more puzzled expressions when we ask "Where do we go from here?" No Bolony The building contract for the temporary buildings speci fied that they must be torn down and replaced within two years from now. Will they be? If so, what will they be re placed with ? ... Several reliable informants in Washington say the Aiken Bill will never be passed. It means that the Federal government will not match our $1,450,000 and fur ther that this money will probably rot in storage while the bill is held 'up. We could sure use a student union building. And those tenements-ouch !! ... Think this over-The other day someone mentioned moving the University to the site of Fort Jackson. The land would be cheap and plentiful, he argued. And it wasn't Ca.rroll Gilliam, either. . . . The Pea body Report, House'Bill H-1517, will be taken up when rou tine holdover matters are settled. It will then go into com mittee where it'll be thrashed out. Prospects for it passing the House this year are still slim. . . . A recent editorial in The State described the University as a progressive institu tion. It further stated that the old Chapel should remain even when the student union building is built! . . . The birds, bees and trees are lovely and interesting topics for editorials, we realize, but we also realize the field for material in this city is filled with much more interesting material. . .. What's to become of the old law building when they vacate it? Presi dent Smith says it will probably be used for an admninistra tion building. It's a good idea, but if it isn't used for this pur pose then we would suggest that it be turned over to the Journalism department and outfitted withea printing press. . .. The outgoing staff wishes the following members of the new Spring semester staff the best of luck in bringing you The Gamecock: Rudy Rivers, editor; Jane Dowe, managing editor; Jack Walther, business manager; Olga Edwards, news editor; Betsy Knowlton, campus editor; Tom Price, sports editor; Ann Chandler; society editor; Marnie Manning, feature editor; Ruthe Kleckley, copy editor; Russ McGowan, circulation manager, and Paul Field, assistant business man ager. . . . Jack Morgan, Lloyd Huntington, Wilbur McCartha and Paul Foster are the only old staff members being gradu ated. Morgan and Huntington will work with The Columbia Record. McCartha will probably hook up with a local news paper and Foster's got his eye on the insurance business. Veterans Corner Here are authoritative answerscotiungohideiecyBt from the Veterans administration h solgdt etterqie to three questions that former ser- etofhesolifhwseso vicemlen regularly ask about in- cniu i oretee surance, hospitalization and G1 ichgeWolWa vtrn Bill education: hsbe ufrn rmasih Q. What happens to the dividendaimnwhhmybeoeerou of a National Service Life Insur- I esol edhsiaiain ance policy where the insured hasholngwlheavtoaib been adjudged incompetent? fr eI ditd A. The NSLI dividend will be A.Odnrl,IhidialtyI pafid to the veteran's legal reproervc-once,h ilnthv sentative.towitorciehsiazton Q. My husband has beeni attend- I ehsannevc-once ing school under the G1 Bill. What aletadh sa mrec happens if his marks are low andcaeheiadtedImitl, his progress is unsatisfactory? poie ei lgbefrhe A. He may receive the assist- ptlzto.Bti ehsann ance of VA's educational and guid-srvc-onteaimtthts anice service in an endeavor to cor- nteegn,h utwi ni reLhoe acor wicmy ents bed the schola fhewihe.t